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Fidelcor Inc. of Philadelphia announced Wednesday that it had sold Mobile Field Office Co., a subsidiary based in Berlin, N.J., and that another subsidiary, Latimer & Buck Inc. of Philadelphia, had purchased Wye Mortgage Corp., based in Lutherville, Md. The purchase prices were not disclosed

Bethlehem's Musikfest this year was blessed with near-perfect concert weather - with cool summer nights. But on the festival's final night, headliner Keith Urban heated things up with a wildly entertaining evening of summer songs that were hot, yet as breezy as the night air that blew through the Sands Steel Stage arena. Playing to a sold-out crowd of more than 6,600 (the 10-day festival's only sellout), Urban was animated and energetic through a show that included 24 songs in just over two hours.

Canadian songstress Anne Murray, who has performed so many times at the State Theatre that she jokes she should move to Easton, will return for another appearance at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The show is sold out for the fifth consecutive year. Murray's 31st album, "What A Wonderful World," was released in Canada in July, and is set for release in the United States next month. The two-disc set features 26 songs, including "Lean on Me" and "Amazing Grace." 610-252-3132.

ATLANTIC CITY — The house that Vera Coking could have sold for millions to Donald Trump years ago fetched $530,000 at auction Thursday. With a 10 percent commission, the as-of-yet unidentified buyer will pay $583,000 for the property. The winning bid came by phone after about an hour of bidding in the parking lot separating Trump Plaza from the white boardinghouse owned by Coking. The price nearly matched the property's assessed value of $580,000, but fell far short of the asking sale price of $995,000, and was a fraction of Trump's offers from years ago. The auction attracted a small gathering of onlookers, including several employees of Trump Plaza, the once-dominant casino now scheduled to close Sept.

The Days Inn Conference Center in South Whitehall Township has been sold to an Illinois partnership for $13.7 million, according to the previous owner and courthouse records. The motel, formerly the Holiday Inn West, had been sold in November to a management company. The most recent sale of the 290-room motel complex was disclosed by Chapman Management Inc. of Jackson, Miss. in a letter to business clients of the inn. According to an assignment of rents and leases documentfiled July 1 with the Lehigh County Recorder of Deeds office, Motel Equity Ventures Limited Partnership, a Delaware corporation that has Motel Equity Corp.

Rudy Ackerman, executive director of the Baum School of Art, holds up the Kenneth Nunamaker oil painting "New Hope, PA' as Boris Wainio of Allentown auctions the item Saturday at the Allentown school's 20th annual auction. The piece sold for $101,000. Winning bidders were to pay a 10 percent premium on sales to the school.

Not even the staff at Sotheby's, who are used to this sort of thing, anticipated the out-of-scale spending last week when the possessions of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were sold at auction. It first was thought that the art, furniture and jewelry with links to a crystal, idealized time in history would fetch about $4 million. In four frenzied days of selling, the total soared to $34.5 million. There are a lot of opinions about what bidders are buying when they give $211,000 for fake pearls realistically assessed at $500.

Thermtron Products, Inc., an insulation manufacturing plant in Lehigh Valley Industrial Park 2, has been sold to Thermoguard Insulation Co., of Spokane, Wash., which had been its biggest customer. Thermtron President Milton Gerber of Ft. Wayne, Ind., said the six-year- old plant and its equipment at 1680 Race St. was sold for about $650,000. Thermoguard, whose owner and president is G. Roger Crawford of Spokane, owns seven other insulation making plants, all west of the Mississippi River.

A 25-year-old Bangor man was arrested Thursday night on charges he sold cocaine and marijuana in the borough in January and February. State police charged Eric Hockin of N. Main Street sold the drugs at his apartment and at the Sportsman Bar on Messinger Street. Hockin was arraigned before District Justice Elmo Frey Jr. of Nazareth on charges of possession of cocaine and marijuana and possession with intent to deliver and delivery of the drugs. He was committed to Northampton County Prison under $10,000 bail.

LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP Lower Saucon Township police conducted a tobacco sting Saturday and identified two businesses that sold tobacco to a 17-year-old girl. Police said the Mobil and Hess service stations on Route 378 did not check the girl's identification and sold her tobacco. Other stores checked her identification and refused a sale, police said.

An office building in the heart of historic Bethlehem has been sold, according to the seller's real estate agency. The three-story, 12,000-square-foot red-brick structure is at 453 Main St., a couple of doors from the Hotel Bethlehem Spangenberg LLC sold the property to Attiq Ramin, Weichert Commercial Brokerage said Wednesday in a news release. The price was not disclosed. Ramin, who has a residence in Lower Nazareth Township and is president of Afghan-American Army Services Corp., could not be reached by phone.

From two acres in Kutztown comes a fiery commitment to pesticide-free food production. Homesweet Homegrown in Kutztown creates sauces made from their own peppers grown on what were once fields of genetically modified corn. "A lot of people don't grow what they make," says Paul David, who founded Homesweet Homegrown with his wife, Robyn Jasko. "We grow the product and … it's literally grown with love. " That love translates into three vegan hot sauces made in Berks County.

Air Products' new CEO Seifi Ghasemi could find himself facing investor scrutiny, but not for anything he's done in his first two weeks on the job with the Trexlertown gas company. Ghasemi previously worked as CEO for New Jersey chemicals company Rockwood Holdings, where he remains on the board of directors. Rockwood rival Albermarle Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to purchase Rockwood in a cash-and-stock deal worth $6.2 billion, or $85.53 per share for Rockwood shareholders. Several law firms on Tuesday announced they are investigating the proposed deal to determine if Rockwood's board of directors could have secured a better price if it solicited other bids.

If you're spending your long holiday weekend strolling through used car lots, here's something else to ask your salesman while you're kicking the tires. Is this car under any recalls? You'd think a dealer would have to fix a recall defect on a used car before selling it. It doesn't. It doesn't even have to tell you about the outstanding recall. Talk about buyer beware. In this supposedly safety-conscious age, our nation's top vehicle safety agency doesn't have the authority to require used car dealers to fix recalled vehicles before selling them, or even disclose recalls to potential buyers.

South Mall has been sold, though the new owner remains something of a mystery. Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust sold the property, which straddles the Salisbury Township-Allentown line, for $23.6 million, the company announced. County real estate records list the new owner as Nicholas Parks Mall LLC in Willow Grove, Montgomery County. But what that is and who's behind it remain unclear. In a news release late last week, PREIT gave no details about the buyer. Subsequent inquires were rebuffed.

EcoTech Marine, a Lehigh County company that makes aquarium pumps, lights and other accessories, has been named the Eastern Pennsylvania and mid-Atlantic region's "Exporter of the Year," by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Hanover Township company exports its aquarium products to more than 30 countries. The products also are available at hundreds of aquarium stores throughout the United States. Three Lehigh University students founded the company in 2003. It now employs more than 40 people.

More than 600 albums, recorded by Freedom High School musicians to benefit the "Save Our Statue" campaign to restore the Statue of Liberty, have been sold and a limited number is still available. The albums, featuring marches and anthems, are being sold during halftime activities at all Freedom home football games. The albums, costing $6, are sold in the concession stand. All proceeds benefit the campaign. A portion of the band's halftime program is devoted to the "Save Our Statue" campaign.

A John Gorka visit to south Bethlehem's Godfrey Daniels is a special event. He's returning Sunday to promote he release of his 12th studio CD. The show is sold out. There is a perfect fit between Gorka and Godfreys. His intimate style works well in the 80-seat listening club. "So much music is impersonal," he says. But he adds, "There is a line between personal and private that I don't cross. It would make the audience feel uncomfortable. " Despite his years on the road, Gorka's offstage shyness leaks into his warm onstage persona, complementing the authenticity of his heartfelt music.